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From Tomcats to Turnarounds -- Chuck Gumbert, Interim CEO, Turnaround
Chuck Gumbert, founder and CEO of The Tomcat Group, has over 30 years of business and operational experience with demonstrated achievements in top-line  and bottom-line growth, and increasing cash flow in both stable and unstable environments.

 
Polishing the Diamonds -- Dominic Luzi, Interim CIO
Dominic Luzi has over 27 years experience in IT where he has held various positions focused on the delivery of solutions to support critical business processes. Seventeen years ago, Dominic started his own consulting business with the goal of having a positive, direct impact on client bottom line performance and focusing on transformational projects.

 
Sales Coaching Par Excellence -- Philippe Lavie, Interim CEO, CMO
Philippe Lavie is founder of KeyRoad Enterprises LLC, which helps companies effectively manage their growth through improved sales performance, and Midwest managing director of Melcion Chassagne and Cie, a global company that advises and supports both serial and first-time entrepreneurs

 
Parachuting in for Change -- Peter Welch, Interim CFO, Turnaround
Peter Welch is a highly experienced educational/training expert, accountant, senior financial manager/interim CFO, and entrepreneurial development specialist/interim CEO. His 30+ years of financial consulting experience spans the globe, assisting organizations with multibillion dollar budgets to small startups in such countries as Egypt, Bermuda, Japan, Iraq, and Afghanistan, to name a few.

 
Take on any Challenge -- Terrence Sheehan, Interim CEO, CIO
Terrence Sheehan has over 15 years experience specializing in the chemical, food, and construction industries.  He has successfully worked with start-up and troubled companies and is recognized for privatizing the largest chemical company in Eastern Europe. Mr. Sheehan, as a fully licensed broker, also creates and executes financial plans for high net worth individuals.

 
Ready, Fire, Aim: Getting Traction FAST -- Bob Dorf, Interim CEO, COO, CMO

Bob Dorf is a serial entrepreneur, serial investor, and serial interim CEO/COO/CMO. He is founding CEO/partner of Marketing 1to1/Peppers & Rogers Group, a 300-person global CRM, and founding CEO of Dorf & Stanton Communications, a $15-million communications and public relations firm.


 

James Jones has extensive C-level experience as COO and president of multi-divisional, international manufacturing companies in a number of disciplines. Jones has significant Supply Chain, Outsourcing and NPI (New Product Introduction) experience with start-up to Fortune 500 companies.


 
Batting .700 in the Turnaround Game -- Robert Handler,  CRO, Turnaround Professional

With more than 25 years of professional experience in commercial financial transactions, Robert Handler is expert at managing turnaround situations and other matters of corporate financial distress. In addition, Handler has dealt with business reorganizations, acquisitions, mergers, court-supervised receiverships, sales and liquidations across the country and in a wide variety of industries.


 
The CEO as Chief Salesman -- Joel Block, Interim CEO, CFO

Joel Block is a speaker, writer, and former advisor to entrepreneurs once featured in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Investor's Business Daily. In his current business, Growth-Logic, Block teaches entrepreneurs and business leaders how to be successful.


 
No More Yes Men -- Bernie Liebowitz, PhD, Interim COO, Business Advisor & Change Management Specialist

Bernard Liebowitz, PhD, is president of the Chicago-based consulting firm Liebowitz & Associates., Liebowitz has been a consultant to businesses and industries since 1978 in the areas of executive and management coaching and development, strategic planning, team building, organizational design and restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions.


 
Say What you Mean. Do What you Say. -- Stuart Emanuel, Interim CEO

With more than 30 years of leadership experience in the information technology services industry, Stuart Emanuel is a recognized thought leader and founder of NueVista Group, an IT consulting and services firm. Emanuel has led a $1B division of a public company, serves as senior advisor and consultant to numerous businesses, and raises capital for start-up companies in the technology and digital media space.


 
Being Passionate About Business. -- Glenn Gottfried, Interim CEO

Glenn Gottfried is CEO of CCS-Adplus, an information services company, and former president of Thomson TFP (formerly Thomson Financial Publishing). Since Gottfried joined CCS-Adplus in February 2007, the company has nearly triple its client base.


 
Changing the Game.-- Stuart Haugen, Interim CEO

Stuart Haugen has 30 years of sales, marketing, and general management experience that spans the consumer goods and technology industries. He has worked with major corporations, such as Nestle Purina, PepsiCo, and Campbell Soup Company, as well as a broad range of start-up and early stage technology companies.


 
If You Can’t Be With the (Industry) You Love, Love the (Industry) You’re With. --  Anna Prata, JD, Interim CEO, COO

With both Fortune 500 and start-up companies, Anna Prata JD has successfully restructured distressed environments, re-built teams, and led organizations resulting in increased revenue, growth, and profits. Prata operationally restructures, leads change, and develops integration initiatives both domestically and internationally.